The Radical, The Revolutionary, and the Russian

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

The history of emotions is a growing branch of historiography and is becoming increasingly widespread in Jewish historiography too. These papers all draw on history of emotions methodology in complementary but different ways bringing it into dialogue with gender and individual agency in diverse contexts, as they explore masculinity, belonging and Jewish sport in the Yishuv; emigration from Russia to the US in the early 20th c.; and women's reasons for staying single in 19th c. Europe.

Sub Unit

• Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities

Chair

• Jacob Daniels, Stanford University

Individual Presentations

• Single by Choice: Single Jewish Women’s Practices in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe - Avital Ginat

• Roads Diverged out of Imperial Russia: How Jewish Migrants Chose the Ones to Travel By, 1880–1914 - Alexandra Zborovsky, University of Pennsylvania

• The “Red Rabbi”: Abraham Bick and the Rise of Yiddish Religious Revolutionary Socialism in the 1930s and 1940s - Daniel Schwartz, The George Washington University